Epilogue to Valvasor’s Baronial Title, Family, death, Tomb and Estate

Abstract

The contribution discusses new findings on the baronial title, family, date of death, tomb and estate of the carniolan polyhistor Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641–1693) and thus complements the treatise which was published in Zgodovinski časopis/historical review in 2007. It has been proven that Valvasor was not entitled to the baronial title which he himself had adopted early on. However, the majority of his thirteen children were born at Bogenšperk rather than elsewhere. The questions of polyhistor’s date of death and place of burial still remain open, but new data referring to these subjects have come to light. the most solid findings are those concerning the house in Krško in which he died and those regarding the fate of his estate. The mentioning of Valvasor’s hitherto unrecorded manuscript book of unknown contents, which was in 1696 purchased by count Vid von Strassoldo, has risen to surface.